As the US struggles with meat shortages, the world’s largest beef and pork producer is under fire for failing to protect its workers from the coronavirus and now faces a new federal probe into alleged price fixing.

JBS, a Brazil-based company that slaughters more than 13 million animals a day in plants around the globe, was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a worker at its operation in Souderton, Pennsylvania, died of COVID-19-related complications last month.

The day before the lawsuit was filed, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate JBS along with the country’s other top meat producers for anti-trust violations.

Attorneys general from 11 meat-producing states had called for the investigation, accusing the producers of working together to drive up retail prices and drive down cattle prices.

“In this highly concentrated industry, meat packers have achieved sizeable profit margins,” the attorneys general wrote in their demand for a federal investigation. “Cattle ranchers, however, who for generations have supplied our nation’s beef, are squeezed and often struggle to survive.”

In the lawsuit, the family of Enock Benjamin alleges that JBS failed to provide masks and other protective equipment at the 1,400 employees at the Souderton plant and instituted a “Saturday kill” program in March to satisfy a demand in the “public panic purchases of ground meat,” according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“By choosing profits over safety, JBS demonstrated a reckless disregard to the rights and safety of others,” according to the lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia.

A JBS spokeswoman did not respond to The Post’s request for comment Friday.

At least 30 meatpacking workers nationwide have died from the coronavirus and more than 10,000 have contracted the contagion, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

The pandemic also forced the temporary closure of 30 meatpacking plants over the past two months, resulting in a 40% drop in pork production and a 25% drop in beef production, according to the union.

Joesley and Wesley Batista, the billionaire brothers who control JBS, have been linked to high-level government corruption that has rocked Brazil.

After admitting to bribing nearly 2,000 elected officials to secure government funding to fuel their company’s US expansion a few years ago, the Batistas were slapped with more than $3.2 billion in fines — the highest in Brazil’s history.